David L. Chandler, MIT News Office

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Energy Efficiency

Battery developed to capture carbon dioxide from power plants

Technique developed for rapid screening of new types of solar cells

Software for detecting diagnostic information on car developed

Energy Efficiency

Study designed to control and enhance the adhesion of freezing droplets

Energy Efficiency

Researchers working to develop a more energy-efficient battery

Discrete Manufacturing

Robotic device designed to detect tiny leaks in pipes

A new system developed by MIT engineers could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only light. Courtesy: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT

Energy Efficiency

Scientists develop method to control water movement

This image from a scanning electron microscope shows a cross section of an object printed using cellulose. The inset shows the surface of the object. Courtesy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discrete Manufacturing

Renewable cellulose alternative designed as source of 3-D printing feedstock

In a time-lapse sequence, infrared imaging shows the temperature changes within a droplet of water as it moves across a treated silicon surface in response to temperature differences on that surface. Courtesy: N. Bjelobrk/Varanasi Research Group, MIT News

Process Instrumentation and Sensors

Temperature used by researchers to control droplet movement

This diagram depicts the way a mid-infrared laser (red cylinder, left) can send a beam through the atmosphere that generates filaments of ionized air molecules (multicolored beam, center, shown with magnified view). These filaments, which can be kilometer

Mid-infrared laser system developed to detect atmospheric chemicals

Figure 2: By printing different patterns on the substrate, this technique can produce a wide variety of complex 3-D shapes. In these images, the initial printed pattern is shown in diagram form (top left), followed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) im

Mechatronics and Motion Control

A new way to make microstructured surfaces